Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain and France were reported trying to get Democrat Davis to wend his appeasing way to Berlin and Rome, beard Hitler and Mussolini with blandishments. The Paris newspundit Pertinax suggested that the Great Powers might succeed if President Roosevelt would find a way to permit Germany and Italy to borrow hugely in return for agreements by Berlin and Rome to cease arriving and give concessions "such as to involve the practical disappearance of Hitlerism and Fascism"-this being Pertinax'?, sly way of saying that Mr. Davis faces the supreme challenge to his optimism. In London David Lloyd George...
...under this U. S. umbrella, was outlined to Their Lordships last week by the Marquess of Lothian, fresh from the U. S. Alarmed by what he had learned of U. S. neutrality legislation, Lord Lothian warned that in the next war Britain may not only find it impossible to borrow from the U. S. but suffer even more. "In certain circumstances we may be debarred from buying raw materials and foodstuffs," cried the Marquess, "even if we have the cash in the United States with which...
...House of Commons, after hearing how upsurging new jobs are going to be provided in the Depressed Areas by Rearmament, rushed through vote after vote last week the enabling bill under which His Majesty's Government are going to borrow ?400,000,000 ($2,000,000,000) for Rearmament. In rapid succession Crown ministers representing the fighting services asked such sums as $410,000,000 for the Army, $525,000,000 for the Navy and spoke casually of setting up "14 new munitions factories." Meanwhile the first long-expected "returning prosperity strike" in the Rearmament industry had suddenly immobilized...
...cinemagnate who managed to buttonhole the Duke and make an offer as fabulous as it was vulgar, the present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted, grinning crew to help their King & Emperor shoot a scene...
...Chiang has a most violently outspoken and un-Christian sister in Mme Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Kuomintang. It was established with money from Moscow, though Founder Sun tried unsuccessfully to borrow elsewhere first. Since Dr. Sun was an unpractical visionary, his death in 1925 greatly advantaged the Kuomintang, enabled such practical leaders as China's present Dictator to turn the memory of Sun into a high-powered political cult, resembling the Communist cult of Lenin. In 1927 practical Chiang broke sharply with Moscow. Last week what he seemed to be doing behind...